Thanatopsis (Poem)
What is the importance of the Barcan wilderness in the poem, Thanatopsis?
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Barcan wilderness is an archaic way of referring to desolate regions in North Africa, particularly the area around Tripoli in present-day Libya. The author invokes this landscape as a way of encouraging the human subject to venture into natural settings and listen to the full spectral array of nature’s communication with humanity.
Thanatopsis